This book has a really fascinating concept, which was, in my opinion, fairly well executed. It takes the concept of an Agatha Christie-style locked room mystery and spins it on its head, by making our protagonist live through the same day over and over, but in the bodies of different characters, and having to solve the mystery of Evelyn Hardcastle’s death, which will have happened at the end of the evening. This is a very mild spoiler, that is revealed in the synopsis in Goodreads […]

In the beginning, I fell passionately in love with Stuart Turton’s The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. I can’t say much without ruining the book, but suffice to say it involves a trove of characters, a murder, and an ingenious set up. The main character is a kaleidoscope, and the characters that revolve around him similarly shift and change. As the characters race to find out who kills Evelyn Hardcastle, old histories and painful stories start to bubble to the surface. By the time […]